From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20545 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2004 08:17:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20229 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2004 08:16:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wiggis.ethz.ch) (129.132.86.197) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Nov 2004 08:16:38 -0000 Received: from wiggis2.ethz.ch (wiggis2.ethz.ch [192.168.127.3]) by wiggis.ethz.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D09A3400E; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:16:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from saa.ethz.ch (saa.ethz.ch [129.132.61.81]) by wiggis.ethz.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D351340C2; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:16:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by saa.ethz.ch (Postfix, from userid 3760) id CFC9470028; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:16:36 +0100 (CET) From: Biagio Lucini Subject: OpenMP licensing problem: a solution Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gomp@nongnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411230916.36569.lucini@phys.ethz.ch> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at phys.ethz.ch X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00797.txt.bz2 The question arose in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-11/msg00394.html and follow-up messages. I have made an enquiry to the OpenMP ARB, appended is the answer I received. My understanding of the meaning of "public domain" is that we are free to put the code under GPL+exceptions. Biagio ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: [Feedback] Licensing (or copyright) question Date: Tuesday 23 November 2004 05.17 From: "Shah, Sanjiv" To: "Biagio Lucini" , Hello, Any material from the OpenMP ARB needs to be released under OpenMP copyright, including the example code. With the copyright, you can assume the code is public domain. Thank you for your interest. For the OpenMP ARB, Sanjiv Shah -- Sanjiv Shah, 217/403-4244, Mobile 217/417-6723, Fax 217/403-4399 Intel Americas, Inc., 1906 Fox Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 -----Original Message----- From: Feedback-bounces@openmp.org [mailto:Feedback-bounces@openmp.org] On Behalf Of Biagio Lucini Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:42 AM To: feedback@openmp.org Subject: [Feedback] Licensing (or copyright) question We are starting a project to implement OpenMP for GCC. At the moment, we are written the stubs, which mostly coincides with what is written in the specification document. Now, GCC for the libraries like to put a GPL + exceptions license. Are we allowed to do that? And under which copyright is the code of the specs being released? Does the copyright notice that applies to the document applies also to the example code or can we assume that the code is public domain? Many thanks for your time, Biagio Lucini (on the behalf of the developers of the gomp project) Feedback mailing list Feedback@openmp.org http://openmp.org/mailman/listinfo/feedback_openmp.org ------------------------------------------------------- -- ========================================================= Biagio Lucini Institut Fuer Theoretische Physik ETH Hoenggerberg CH-8093 Zuerich - Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)1 6332562 =========================================================